Methods for manufacturing printed textiles
AssigneeAgfa NV
InventorJohan Loccufier
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Abstract
A method for manufacturing printed textiles includes the steps of: a) inkjet printing an image onto a textile substrate with one or more inkjet inks including an aqueous medium and capsules composed of a polymeric shell surrounding a core which contains one or more thermally curable compounds; and b) thermally fixing the inkjet printed image. Inkjet printed textiles contain a printed image on a textile substrate wherein pigments and/or disperse dyes are at least partially encapsulated by polymeric shell material from capsules composed of a polymeric shell surrounding a core.
Claims14
A method for manufacturing printed textiles comprising the steps of:
- inkjet printing an image onto a textile substrate with one or more inkjet inks, wherein each of the one or more inkjet inks comprises an aqueous medium and capsules, the capsules include a polymeric shell surrounding a core, the core contains one or more thermally curable compounds including a tri- or tetrafunctional blocked isocyanate, and the polymeric shell contains a polyurea polymer, the capsules are dispersed in the aqueous medium using a dispersing group covalently bonded to the polymeric shell, the dispersing group is selected from the group consisting of a carboxylic acid or salt thereof, a sulfonic acid or salt thereof, a phosphoric acid ester or salt thereof, a phosphoric acid or salt thereof, an ammonium group, a sulfonium group, and a phosphonium group;
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- thermally fixing the inkjet printed image.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.